From: rbt@tous.oau.org (Robert B. Tate) Subject: Re: New release: JOE 1.0.7 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1992 00:15:35 GMT
In article <ByHruF.B6K@world.std.com> jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen) writes:
>In article <ByBvGL.1D6@world.std.com> jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen) writes:
>>An new release of JOE is ready. Get it by anonymous ftp from
>>world.std.com, file 'src/editors/joe1.0.7.tar.Z'. Might have to wait a day
>>as it's a holiday here and the operators might not be in.
>
>Well the operators are still on vacation so the latest version isn't
>installed in the ftp directory yet. Hopefully they'll come back tomorrow
>(sheesh I pay for this unix account; you'd think they be here on holidays
>:-).
I know! I tried and tried and tried.... Now I'll have to wait
untill next weekend (I can only access my account on weekends).
In case you can't tell, I really like joe so far! :)
>
>Anyway, I was able to do some more stuff to the latest version:
>
>- It now has a man page
>
>- I improved the paragraph reformat so that it doesn't force you to have
>two spaces after sentences and doesn't leave extra spaces at the ends of
>lines.
>
>- Joe is now fully event-driven and object oriented. You can switch windows
>even in the single character prompts. This eliminates problems with the
>screen resizing signals and child death signals.
One thing I would like to see: you said you added the ^S/^Q environment
variable so we could use them for commands. Could you make it work from
the .joerc file? That would make it a lot cleaner.
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